MURDER JUSTIFIED?

Bill to increase penalties introduced

Senators on both sides of the aisle were stunned when a leading animal rightist, who is also a California surgeon, testified at a Senate Environment & Public Works Committee hearing that murder of biomedical researchers was "morally justified" to end animal experimentation.

In a hearing Oct. 26 on animal rights violence, Sen. James Inhofe (R-OK), chair of the Senate Committee on Environment & Public Works also announced he was introducing a bill to amend the federal criminal code to provide greater federal protections to labs, farms, ranches, food companies and animal exhibitions.